314 INTERLACING BAND-DESIGNS circular form. It is inlaid in black stone upon the floor of the nave of Sens Cathedral and is of thirteenth-century date. These mazes, sometimes thirty or forty feet in diameter, were once common in Mediaeval cathedrals, but unfortunately many have been destroyed, as… … FIG. 367. given in Fig. 367. Older examples of very similar design occur upon Roman mosaic pavements, con- necting the Mediaeval labyrinths with those figured upon the Cretan coins which represent that con- structed by Daedalus, in which the Minotaur was vn. confined (see Fig. 368). Various So…
Decoration and ornament
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